From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 05:26:51 -0600 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87r5agv8jo.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87ei6mz24h.fsf@lifelogs.com> <20110306072147.GA11067@event-horizon.homenet> <871v2i525h.fsf@lifelogs.com> <20110308004724.GA1952@event-horizon.homenet> <87k4g9x5hq.fsf@lifelogs.com> <20110309062554.GB2042@event-horizon.homenet> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299671333 15089 80.91.229.12 (9 Mar 2011 11:48:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 11:48:53 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 09 12:48:49 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PxHsd-0004hn-Sr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:48:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49522 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PxHZB-00085b-VM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 06:28:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54635 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PxHYY-0007l2-8t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 06:28:29 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PxHXk-0004Rf-9P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 06:27:05 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:54271) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PxHXk-0004RL-2g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 06:27:04 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PxHXh-0004OP-L6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:27:01 +0100 Original-Received: from c-67-186-102-106.hsd1.il.comcast.net ([67.186.102.106]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:27:01 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by c-67-186-102-106.hsd1.il.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:27:01 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-186-102-106.hsd1.il.comcast.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110014 (No Gnus v0.14) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:TyJwnCR8Ky3/csV6EUPtWzkB/5Q= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:136957 Archived-At: On Tue, 8 Mar 2011 22:26:01 -0800 Mike Mattie wrote: MM> I have been reading this thread very carefully and have given the MM> snippets proposal alot of thought. I am willing to add a snippets MM> directory like functionality. I would require the user to execute a MM> command to signal to grail that the user has placed a new file in the MM> snippets directory. MM> BTW, Grail does allow you to change the layout, by creating a MM> grail-cfg.el file in USER_ELISP (see the Grail page for the meaning of MM> that variable). grail-cfg.el is loaded if it exists right after the MM> default tree is defined in defvar's and before the heavy lifting is done MM> in terms of loading. I think Grail brings too much functionality for the proposal in this discussion, after looking at its pieces. Ben Key's implementation is closer to the simplicity I was hoping for. That's not to say Grail is not useful, I just don't think that it is the right solution here. Ted